Crochet-ball holder



L. M. LARSON.

CROCHET BALL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 17, 1920.

1 ,386, 5 1 5 Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

f I I I r I I a r I i g tains to make units-o, STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

LEONARD M. LARSON, OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON.

CROCHET-BALL HOLDER.

meters.

Specification of Lett'crslatent.

Patented A11 2, 1921.

Application filed Novembr 17, 1920. Serial No. 424,731.

residing at Tacoma, in the county of Pierce and State of ll' ashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Crochet-hall Holders; and'I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the ar to which it apperand use the same.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and convenientmeans readily applicable the wrist of the operator for conveiiiently holding a ball of yarn in proper position to be fed to the crochet needles under such conditions as to facilitate the supply of the yarn while preventing the tangling or iinotting thereof and under conditions whereby the necessity of holding the ball in the lap or in a special receptacle provided for the purpose is avoided, and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the drawings wherein Figure 1 is a view of a ball holder embodying the invention as seen when in use,

Fig. 2 isan elevation of the same showing the ball-of yarn in section,

Fig. 3 is an edge view,

Fig. l is a view of the blank from which the holder is formed,

Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the means whereby the center pin is held in position to maintain the ball in the holder, or for locking said pin in its operative position.

The holder consists essen ially of a wrist clamp 10 comprising the side yielding arms 11 having outturned 0r deflected free ends 12 adapted to be readily slipped over the wrist of the operator, and suspending arms 18 extending in substantially parallel relation from an outwardly convexed retaining plate 14; with the extremities of which both the clamp arms and the suspending arms may be integral and formed as extensions as indicated in Fig. i, to the end that the apparatus as so far described may be struck from a single plate or sheet of metal or like material of a suflicient resilience to cause an inward spring tendency of the clamp arms and an outward spring tendency of the suspending arms 13.

Pivotally suspended between the planes of the arms 18 is a ball'pintle 15 having oppositely extending arms 16 extended through bearmgopemngs 17 near the free ends of the hangers 13. and provided with ,deilected terminal fingers 17 for engage-.

ment with seats or notches 18 formed in the outwardly deflected extremities 19 of said hangers, to the end that while the pintle may be swung to one SlflGOl the other to permit the placing of the ball 20 of yarn thereupon, the said terminal fingers of the arms ofthe pintle are yieldingly held and locked in the seats or notches to normally maintain the pintle in a position to support the ball of yarn upon which it is held by the convexed surface of the retaining plate let. The concaved inner surface of the plate which for convenience may be termed aseat, serves to lit and form a comfortable bearing for the wrist of the operator engaged by the clamping arms.

Also in practice it is preferred to produce the pintle and its extensions forming the suspending arms of a'blank of wire folded upon itself or looped at its center as shown and with its extremities deflected into engaging relation with the bearing openings in the free ends of the hangers 13.

Havin thus described the invention, what I claim is:

l. A crochet ball holder having a plate and oppositely extending clamping arms and hangers, said hangers having bearing openings in their terminals and a pintle having oppositely extending arms mounted in said bearing openings in the extremities of said hangers, said spindle being adapted for terminal arrangement adjacent to said plate, said clamping arms and hangers respectively having inward and outward spring tendencies and means carried by the terminals of the hangers, for locking said pintle in its normal position.

2. A crochet ball holder having a plate and oppositely extending clamping arms and hangers, said hangers having bearing openings in their terminals, and a pintle having oppositely extending arms mounted in d bearing openings in the extremities of said hangers, said spindle being adapted for terminal arrangement adjacent to said plate, said plate being concaved toward the clamping arms and convexed toward said pintle to engagea ball of yarn upon the latter.

3. A crochet ball holder having a'plate and oppositely extending clamping arms and hangers, said hangers having bearing openings in their terminals and V a pintle having oppositely extending arms mounted in said bearing openings in the extremities of said hangers, said spindle beingadapted for terminal arrangement adjacent to said plate, 'saidhangers having a terminally outopeningsin their terminals anda pintle vhaving oppositely extending arms "mount-ed Ward 'springtendency and the extremities of the pintle arms having deflected fingers for engagement With'seats or notohes in saidhangers t 41 A crochet ball holder having a plate and oppositely extending clamping I arms and hangersfsaid hangers having bearing in-said bearing openings in the extremities of said hangers, said'spindle. being adapted for. terminal arrangement adjacent to said plate, said pintle and its arms consisting of a looped blank of Wire-folded upon itself at its center "and having its extremities deflected to form'fingers for engagement ivith seats or notches in'said hangers.

5. A crochet ball holderhaving a plate and pairs of arms extended from the ends 7 thereof, one pair of sa d arms being curved to form clamping arms for engagement aroundthe rist of a person said plate being ourved for engagement with the mist, the remaining pair of arms being extended in an opposite direction from the endsof said plate to .form hangers,and a pintle suspended between said hangers and directed toward said plate to support thereon a crochet ball With the latter engaging said plate to retard rotationof the crochetball 

